My research interests cover migration, the aging labor force, pension finance, public sector economics, population policies, the history of economic thought and economics of economics.

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• Scientific secretary of the State Committee on Demographic Developments 2050, September 2022-1 July 2024
• Member Advisory Council of the Centre for Economy Studies, May 2023- present

• Director of the Master of Education program, Economics and Management & Organisation (ULT) of Tilburg University, October 2012 - June 2015.

• Founder and managing editor, Me Judice, 2008-2018.

• Secretary of the Scheltema Commission investigating the fall of the DSB Bank, Ministry of Finance.
• Managing editor Demos, 2018-present

• Secretary of the Dutch Council of Economic Advisors of the House of Representatives (or Raad van Economisch Adviseurs, REA), The Hague, March 1, 2005 - January 1, 2008.

• Senior research associate, SEOR - Erasmus Competition and Regulation Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2004 - 2007.
• Senior Research Associate, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, 1996 - 1999; and from October 2002 - present
• Senior research associate, Research Center for Economic Policy (OCFEB), Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1994 - 2004.
• Research fellow Tinbergen Institute, 1992 - 2007.
• Senior staff member, Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), 1999 - 2002
• Senior staff member, Ministry of Economic Affairs, 1995 - 1996.
• Post-doc researcher, Department of Mathematical Economics, Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1991 - 1994.

Consumerism

History of Economic Thought

The Making of Modern Macroeconomics

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